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‖ Piast|pjɑːst, -æ-|
[Polish, after Piast, the name of the good peasant (reputed to have lived in the 9th c.) from whom the Polish kings were said to be descended.]
A native Pole of regal or ducal rank; hence, a man of genuine Polish descent.
[1684Scanderbeg Rediv. iv. 59 He Advised them rather wholly to lay aside those Foreign pretensions, and chuse a Piasti, that is, some Nobleman of their own Countrey.] 1781Justamond Priv. Life Lewis XV, I. 2 None but Piasts, or Polish Noblemen, born of Catholic fathers and mothers, could pretend to the crown. c1830Tennyson Sonn. in J. C. Collins Early Poems 307 O for those days of Piast, ere the Czar Grew to this strength among his deserts cold. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr tr. Ranke's Hist. Servia i. 11 Poland had, under the last Piasts, allied itself more closely to the Western States, in order to obtain protection from a similar subjugation.
attrib.1833Alison Hist. Europe xvii. (1847) V. 14 The kings of the Piast race made frequent and able efforts to create a gradation of rank in the midst of that democracy. |